The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting was established in April 1974 to discuss the

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broadcasting industry, including new technologies and their funding, the role and funding of the BBC,

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and programme standards. On 3 February 1977, the committee recommended: * Changes to BBC funding by

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* Fourth, independent, television channel * Long-term restructure and diversification of broadcasting * Establishment of Broadcasting Complaints Commission * Privatisation of local radio * Independence from direct political control * Increase in independent production

Outcomes

* Increased licence fee *

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(implemented in 1980) * Channel 4 being of a more "open" nature rather than one of balance such as the BBC

Members

Lord Annan Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan OBE (25 December 1916 – 21 February 2000) was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. During his military career, he rose to the rank of colonel and was appointed to the Order of the Briti ...

* Peter Goldman * Professor Hilde Himmelweit *

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* Sir Antony Jay *

Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the ''Oxford English Diction ...

* Hilda M. Lawrence * Dewi Lewis * Sir James Mackay * The Hon. Mrs Charles Morrison *

Dipak Nandy Dipak K. Nandy (born 21 May 1936) is an Indian academic and administrator. Beginning his career as a lecturer in English literature, Nandy developed greater interests in race relations and was the first director of the Runnymede Trust. He was lat ...

* John G. Parkes * John Pollock * Professor Geoffrey Sims *

Phillip Whitehead Phillip Whitehead (30 May 1937 – 31 December 2005) was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer. Early life Born in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, he was adopted by a local family in Rowsley, and attended Lady Manners School ...

MP * Sir Marcus Worsley

References

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